Somehow the Ferangi would manage to sell them photon torpedoes. They’d still fire at anyone who approached their island .

All without a single advancement in the technology, apparently.

What do you mean by that?

I would say there have been a great many advancements in technology. I mean, that’s what all these improvements are, right?

I’ve always wondered why people treat dark matter as a concrete fact. “Dark force” would be a better name, since we don’t even know that there’s matter there! We only presume it’s gravity keeping galaxies together and we only presume that it’s gravity due to matter. We also only presume that space is homogenous and that gravity has an equal effect across all regions of space.

So that makes sense to use now. Rar made sense before 7z existed.

If anything is dumb it’s limiting your diet.

It makes me feel better about the current state of medical practice. I’ve often felt disappointed with the options doctors have for me, or by their inability to diagnose a problem.

But the realization that they don’t have a user manual, or a schematic, and the scientific community only has a limited understanding of how this all works, really does make it easier to understand. Doctors aren’t akin to engineers, they aren’t given enough info to be engineers, they’re hackers. Doctors need to reverse engineer systems that are way over their heads, and tease them into doing something else. They need to find those undocumented instructions and then, indirectly, use chemistry to implement them into the body.

Can you “predict” a storm when it’s already raining?

I’m not exactly clear on how Jupiter could be pulled into the roche limit of the sun, but if it happened, yeah that would look pretty darn cool!

Well, I can’t really argue with that…

Ohh, does the headline changes all the facts in my statement?

These are advances in physics. Understanding the sound created by sonic booms is really understanding the nature of airflow and shockwaves in the supersonic regime. This is critical scientific development for NASA this could lead to more efficient rockets, and space planes as well as more efficient engines.

Did you know that the F1 engine that powered the Saturn V suffered from 1 major problem? Combustion instability, due to acoustic disturbances in the combustion chamber. Because of this they had to turn shut down at least 1 engine early in every launch. Understanding supersonic shockwaves is exactly the kind of thing that could have solved that problem.

A headline changes nothing.

It’s researching how to make “any” supersonic vehicle quieter… You know NASA does have a whole fleet of supersonic vehicles, but they can’t operate them anywhere over land in the US. It’s literally illegal to fly a supersonic vehicle over populated areas (most of the US).

You act like this technology is only applicable to commercial passenger liners, but it’s literally all supersonic aircraft.

Look at boom spersonic’s jet designs: https://boomsupersonic.com/

They’ve already sold future planes to several airlines. It’s happening.

Not likely. Jet engines are crazy efficient compared to rockets.

And as far as I know there are only 2 or 3 companies who are even attempting to make a fully reusable rocket, and it’s really hard.

(Those companies being SpaceX and Stoke aerospace, but Stoke is a long way off. Relativity space was going to do full reusability, but I think they dropped the plan.)

Nasa is always researching supersonic/hypersonic travel, that’s what a space agency does.

It would be hard to list ALL of the ways that research benefits you.

That’s called a hyperloop, nobody liked the idea.

I think the next innovation will be slow electric powered lighter than air travel. Airships may be the future.

That and these new supersonic planes, they’re already happening. Boom supersonic is currently testing their demonstration plane based on this nasa project. Their next step is to build a supersonic business class jet.

That’s called a hyperloop, nobody liked the idea.

I think the next innovation will be slow electric powered lighter than air travel. Airships may be the future.

That and these new supersonic planes, they’re already happening. Boom supersonic is currently testing their demonstration plane based on this nasa project.

Yeah, now I want boat mode too!

That’s a waitcracker. OP was thinking of a waitress who just walks into a house of bears, eats their food and falls asleep.

And like that, you’ve dashed my dreams if a brighter future…

It sounds like it has no ability to transmit though, right?